In response to the serious toll diabetes takes on health and resources, researchers increasingly are examining physical and psychological pathways that affect and are affected by diabetes, including… (More)

New edition of a textbook for this rapidly expanding discipline, addressing the important health and social issues of the elderly. Arrangement is in five sections: an introduction to the study,… (More)

The principal intent of this paper is to replicate formally the work of Lemon, Bengtson, and Peterson (1972), the first researchers to carefully articulate a systematic statement of the activity… (More)

BACKGROUND
The present study examined the association between a measure of diabetes-specific health literacy and three different Type 2 diabetes outcome indicators in a national sample of older… (More)

We describe the process of installing a monitoring system in the homes of 19 families who were caring for a relative with dementia, and evaluating the use of the system for 24 weeks. The system is… (More)

Borrowing principles from total quality management and the emerging consumer-satisfaction movement in the field of ageing, we explored how technology might assist family members who are caring at… (More)

Data from the Supplement on Aging to the 1984 National Health Interview Survey were used to identify patterns of long-term care (LTC) service use among older Blacks. A subset of the SOA, including… (More)